An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6145-00-553-8196
NSN 6645-01-400-2119
NSN 5996-01-216-0702
NSN 5975-01-258-3980
NSN 5999-00-216-8197
NSN 6650-01-423-8131
NSN 6135-00-930-5372
NSN 5965-01-565-5063
NSN 6105-01-182-2767
NSN 6620-01-376-3744
NSN 5930-01-444-1626
NSN 5960-01-082-8571